CakePHP 3 Raw SQL Query

Question

I\'m using CakePHP 3, I need to run a raw SQL query on multiple tables. In CakePHP 2, this could be done by using the query() method on any model ( $this->Messages-

Answer 1

The documentation for this is here: http://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/orm/database-basics.html#executing-queries

But what's not written there is how to execute it. Because it cost me a while, here is the solution for that:

1.You need to add

use Cake\Datasource\ConnectionManager;

2.init the ConnectionManager (as mentioned above)

$conn = ConnectionManager::get('my_connection');

3.Execute your SQL with something like this

$firstName = $conn->execute('SELECT firstname FROM users WHERE id = 1');